Rachel Rose
The Open Land by Moonlight (1993), 2022
Pigment print on Photo Rag Baryta
Unframed:
139.7 x 92.7 cm
55 x 36 1/2 in
Framed:
147 x 99.5 x 4 cm
57 7/8 x 39 1/8 x 1 5/8 in
139.7 x 92.7 cm
55 x 36 1/2 in
Framed:
147 x 99.5 x 4 cm
57 7/8 x 39 1/8 x 1 5/8 in
Edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof
Copyright The Artist
Rose took these photographs when she was seven years old in the rural farmland of North Salem where she grew up. In them, the moon rises above a nearby hill,...
Rose took these photographs when she was seven years old in the rural farmland of North Salem where she grew up. In them, the moon rises above a nearby hill, exposing the delicacy of a single, perfectly intact dandelion. Its florets are delicate, and a single blow of breadth could disperse them across the field. This moonlit landscape is reminiscent of the 19th century paintings Rose worked over in her Colores series, and of the landscape in Enclosure, where the sky and the moon frame and dramatise the dramas of everyday human life in the land.